When Words Would Wound: The Power of Intentional Silence

Sometimes life hits so hard that we become silent—not because we have nothing to say, but because speaking from our wounds would hurt rather than heal. I share my personal experience with seasons of silence and how they serve as crucial times for internal rebuilding.

• Recognizing when our words would come from a place of toxicity rather than healing
• Using silence as an intentional practice for rebuilding and rebirth
• Understanding that we can't pour healing from an unhealed place
• Allowing ourselves time to process pain before speaking about it
• Learning to speak eventually from a place of healing rather than hurt
• Embracing silence not as surrender but as strategic recovery

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome to Robin's Nest
• 0:21 The Season of Silence Explained
• 1:04 Silence as a Time for Rebuilding
• 1:54 From Pain to Purpose
• 3:32 Closing and Social Media Information

Transcript

Ty Wonder: 0:04

Welcome to Robin's Nest, the empowerment podcast with nourishment for the mind and spirit. Welcome to the Nest.

Coach Robbin: 0:15

This is Robbin, your empowerment coach. Welcome to the Nest. Lately I've been kind kinda in a place of silence, In a place where I felt like I didn't have anything to say. There are things that can hit your life, that will silence you, when you don't want to talk to anybody. You don't want to respond to anybody Because you know that even if you do respond, your response is going to be toxic. Your response is going to be negative. Whatever you say is going to be punitive. How it comes out is going to be misinterpreted because you don't have anything to say.

Coach Robbin: 1:03

There have been times when I didn't want to speak. I didn't want to do a podcast because I didn't have anything to say. But there are times when things get better. You begin to want to speak again. You begin to want to pour out into other people again, because you know that what you're pouring is pure and what you're pouring is not going to. You're pouring is not going to hurt, but it's going to heal.

Coach Robbin: 1:30

But in those seasons when I have to be silent, when I don't want to speak, it's because I don't want to hurt. I want to speak life. I want to speak things that will heal. So sometimes, when things hit my life and I get silent. If you know me, you know it's got to be a big deal for me not to want to talk, for me not to have something to say, the things that hurt me so bad that it made me speechless. Why did I not want to talk when I had to keep things and thoughts to my own self? Because if I speak, it's going to come out incorrectly. If I speak, it's going to come out like a serpent's tongue. If I speak, it's going to cut you like a knife. So I choose not to say anything. Because it is the season where I'm having to be silent to reset my thoughts, reset my attitude. I got to have time when I have to be silent. What happens to you? The times when you don't want to speak and people don't understand what's wrong with you. Why are you not talking? I'm not talking in this season because if I do, it's going to come out crazy. If I do, it's going to be a problem. So I'm choosing not to speak in this season.

Coach Robbin: 3:00

There are times when you have to let your silence be a time of rebuilding. Let your silence be a time of rebirth. Let your silence be a time when you get yourself back together again, when you're able to put the pieces back together again. I don't want to talk right now Because my speech will hurt and not heal. Let your seasons of silence be a time of rebirthing and rebuilding and getting yourself back together so that you can heal somebody.

Coach Robbin: 3:37

That your words are not full of venom, your words are not full of pain, that your words are not full of something that is going to. When you pour out, you're pouring out of pain and you're giving the other person pain and you're not giving them purpose. You're giving them pain, you're giving them hurt and you're're giving them wounds and you're not healing because you're speaking from a place of being wounded. You're still speaking from a place where you're hurt. How can I pour healing into you if I'm speaking from a place of unheal, of being unhealed?

Coach Robbin: 4:11

There are times when we have to be silent, but know in your silence that something is working on the inside so that when you do speak again, it will build somebody up and not tear them down. You will be so healed that when you talk about the trauma that made you silent, it won't come out as being unhealed words. It'll come out from a place of healing. It'll come from a place of restoration. It will come from a place of restoration. It will come from a place where you're trying to help them go through their trauma. But I can't help you go through my trauma if my words are full of infection, if my words are full of still being wounded, if my words are coming from a place where all I'm saying is negativity because I'm still hurting from what I was going through. That tried to shut my mouth, but I opened it anyway.

Coach Robbin: 4:59

So if it's your season of going through and rebuilding, shut your mouth In silence. Rebuild yourself. Get yourself back together so that the words that come out will be sweet, the words that come out will be filled with healing and will be where it can build somebody else up. There are seasons when I can't talk. Let me not speak in this season if what I say is going to hurt you and not heal you. It is your season of silence that rebirthing and healing can take place. This is Robin from Robin's Nest that rebirthing and healing can take place. This is Robin from Robin's Nest, Even in your season of silence. Just know things are getting ready to be rebuilt so that when you do speak again, it will be effective.

Ty Wonder: 5:48

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Ty Wonder: 5:52

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Ty Wonder: 5:54

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